I drank the cool aide a week ago and FAILED the test! UGH!. For those of you that are wondering what the cool aide is - its a 50 gram glucose beverage to test for gestational diabetes.
There are many different ways in which this test is administered, for me, the doctors gave me the bottle and said 'when you are not sick anymore, drink this, then go the the lab within an hour and have your blood drawn'. That was it - no other instructions, nothing about food etc etc etc. I did ask if there was anything special I needed to do and the response was 'no'.
So when I was feeling better, I drank the cool aide! I got up that morning, had my usually breakfast, went for my swim, ate a banana after swimming, drank the cool aide and went to get my blood drawn! I did what I normally do..................... I FAILED the test!. This led to hours of research and wondering if I had gestational diabetes, what I could do different, what would happen from here on out etc etc. They had me do the 3 hour test 3 days later. This test was a little different, I was told not to eat or drink ANYTHING (not even water) after 6pm the night before I was going to do the test.................. what a pain - plus knowing I couldn't eat or drink made me want to eat and I was super thirsty. Anyway, I got up the next day and went to the lab when it opened at 7am to start the test. It started with a Urine sample and blood draw, then I drank the cool aide again (which the nurses were saying, its so awful - but I actually liked it ;). Then I had to do a blood draw and urine sample after 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hour and 3 hours. I was at the lab all morning................ I had my blood drawn 5 times (good job I don't mind it and have good veins). The results came in the next day and I passed - I do not have Gestational Diabetes and I can keep doing what I have been doing with respect to eating etc etc (I honestly don't know what I would have done differently anyway). I don't know what happened with the first test, maybe I did it wrong, maybe not! Who knows!
most people fail this test.
ReplyDeletethat was from me-heather
ReplyDeleteI failed the first test. I made the mistake of eating tortilla chips the night before. I guess carbs are the worst thing to eat before the test. So, I like you, had to do the long test and multiple blood draws only to pass with flying colors the second time.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy you don't have gestational diabetes. My co-worker had it and she had to test her blood all the time :-/
Miss ya!!
Heather Wiley